Al Sharpton Says Supreme Court Put A Bullet In The Heart Of The Voting Rights Movement

Killer Mike revives his iconic “plot, plan, strategize” call after the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling.

Killer Mike didn’t waste any time when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act this week, dropping a message his audience needed to hear immediately.

“Americans, we got work to do at and beyond the polls this year. No matter what… plot, plan, strategize, organize and mobilize!” he wrote, reviving the battle cry that’s been his civic signature since 2020.

Per AllHipHop, the post is already drawing backlash rooted in his past political contradictions, but the message itself is landing exactly where it needs to.

The ruling that triggered it, Louisiana v. Callais, came down 6-3 on Wednesday and stripped Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 of most of its power.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, dramatically raising what plaintiffs must prove to challenge a racially gerrymandered map in court.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent that the decision renders Section 2 “all but a dead letter,” because states can now draw Black voters out of political power as long as they blame partisanship instead of race.

Justice Clarence Thomas went further in a concurrence joined by Neil Gorsuch, writing he’d hold that Section 2 “does not regulate districting at all,” calling decades of VRA protections a “disastrous misadventure.”

This is the second Black justice in Supreme Court history using his seat to dismantle protections that Black Americans bled for, according to CNN. Donald Trump, when asked about it in the Oval Office, didn’t hesitate: “That’s the kind of ruling I like.”

Rev. Al Sharpton called it “a bullet in the heart of the voting rights movement” and announced NAN Voting Brigades will deploy across more than 23 cities, going block by block, ahead of the midterms.

“We are only a few generations removed from legalized disenfranchisement,” Sharpton said. “That is not distant history, that is our reality. Faith without works is dead. History will remember where we stood in this moment.”

Sen. Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator and a direct product of VRA protections, called it “a slap in the face” of every person who marched for those rights.

Louisiana already suspended its May 16 House primaries to redraw maps eliminating at least one majority-Black congressional district, according to the New York Times, with Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee all moving fast in the same direction.

Analysts project Republicans could net as many as 18 additional House seats through newly enabled gerrymanders before November.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries vowed that passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act will be among Democrats’ first acts if they reclaim the majority in November 2026.

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